Wizz Air plans gradual return to growth in 2025


Wizz Air expects for 45 Airbus A320neo family aircraft to remain grounded this summer due to inspections of their Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan (GTF) engines. In 2025, the low cost airline anticipates for 35 aircraft to be grounded, which will enable it to return to growth, following almost no increase in capacity this year, a rarity for a major low cost carrier, which generally rely on wide-scale growth to maintain revenue and profitability. According to CEO Jozsef Varadi, Wizz Air will take delivery of three aircraft each month from Airbus. That will result in “significant expansion in 2025 and 2026”. Next year, the airline expects a 20% increase in capacity, while the following year will see an additional 20 - 25% capacity hike.

Wizz Air’s bases in Skopje and Belgrade have been impacted by the grounding of aircraft this summer. During the ongoing third quarter, Wizz Air’s year-on-year capacity in Skopje is down 13.4%, while its reduction in Belgrade stands at 25.9%. However, over the past two weeks, the carrier has put an additional 50.000 seats on sale out of Belgrade by adding an extra fifteen weekly flights from the Serbian capital in September and October, with a total of nine routes seeing a boost in frequencies.

Mr Varadi believes that Airbus delivery delays will not have a substantial negative impact on the airline's capacity next year. "We are making assumptions that Airbus will have delivery delays, but they already have six-month delivery delays. The real impact will be fairly limited", Mr Varadi said. Earlier this year, Silvia Mosquera, Wizz Air’s Executive Vice President and Group Chief Commercial Officer, told EX-YU Aviation News the airline plans to start growing operations out of its bases in Skopje and Belgrade next year. “Next year, there will be less of an impact as some of the engines will come back from the shops so I think that next year we will see growth from Wizz Air. The Western Balkans are a very relevant market for us. Our intention is to further grow in the region”, Ms Mosquera said.


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  1. Anonymous09:01

    Hopefully they bring back Ljubljana to Luton

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    1. Anonymous09:03

      They will most likely move from LJU to TRS.

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    2. Anonymous09:06

      Or Charleroi

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    3. Anonymous09:40

      I hope they increase skopje - Ljubljana, return luton and charleroi…

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    4. Anonymous21:09

      As I said, it is more likely they will move to TRS. They will have more flights and destinations there than in LJU (2 weekly TIA and OTP compared to 3 weekly SKP).

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  2. Anonymous09:12

    Let's hope this increase in BEG helps in getting the airport past 8.5 million this year.

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    1. Anonymous10:24

      Maybe you mean 9.5 mil. 9 million is already achived with current growth

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    2. Anonymous10:46

      Daj boze

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  3. Anonymous09:19

    Are they ever gonna come ti Zagreb?

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  4. Anonymous09:20

    Hope to see Wizzair back Basel-Prishtina

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    1. Anonymous09:21

      Well they won't because Albanians would rather fly with reiseburo mafia airlines.

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    2. Anonymous10:08

      Easyjet already flies Basel...

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    3. Anonymous10:12

      Easyjet is not Wizzair

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    4. Anonymous12:56

      Ok why would Wizz start a new route that they would face heavy competition on when they can just start a different one

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    5. Anonymous16:40

      There are people here who are jealous of Pristina's successes, they try to smear the same.

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  5. Anonymous11:13

    Let's hope they will return to growth as announced next year.

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  6. Anonymous11:13

    Although I don't blame Wizz directly for the issue with the engines, this shows that the airports need to attract different carriers and this might be a good opportunity to try attracting other low cost airlines to Skopje

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  7. Anonymous11:14

    How many aircraft will they have based in SKP and how many in BEG this winter in the end?

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    1. Anonymous11:53

      No one knows yet. They have not finalized their winter network.

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    2. Anonymous12:44

      SKP can definitely handle up to 10 planes because they use some planes for INI flights.

      BEG maybe 5 or 6.

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    3. Anonymous13:23

      SKP will have 4 A320s this winter.

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  8. Anonymous11:14

    We have been used to lots of growth from Wizz so this is unfortunate. Hope they manage to navigate this crisis and come back stronger.

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  9. Anonymous11:21

    I like the special livery on this plane.

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  10. Anonymous11:53

    Hope for some new routes next year.

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  11. Anonymous12:17

    Yeah Balkan is a very relevant market for them, thats why they dont launch any new routes now. In the past days they announced new routes from Rome, Milan, Gdansk, Warsaw, Cluj and Bucharest. Why investing in SKP where there is no competition, even if they leave SKP base with only 1 plane nobody will complain.

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    1. Anonymous12:44

      Well BEG is important for them if they announced so many new increases from September.

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    2. Anonymous13:24

      Thats only for SEP and OCT.

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    3. Anonymous13:38

      Because winter schedule is far from finalized.

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    4. Anonymous14:15

      Hope so

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  12. Anonymous13:43

    this would be the perfect timing for Ryanair to attack Wizzair at SKP

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    1. Anonymous13:44

      They can launch Arlanda, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Weeze, Bergamo, Vienna, Prague, Barcelona, Paphos…

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  13. Anonymous14:28

    Hoping they bring back BASEL-OHRID 4 flights per week next year
    We are missing that route

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    1. Anonymous17:54

      Also hope they return Skopje-Luxembourg.

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    2. Anonymous19:15

      SKP-BCN is more important than LUX.

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  14. Anonymous17:54

    So many airlines having issues with neo engines.

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  15. Anonymous17:55

    I wonder how much Pratt and Whitney had to pay Wizz.

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  16. Anonymous20:48

    Hopefully they start also paying entitled compensations to affected by delays customers without nowadays needed Involvement of specialized lawyer agencies and debt collectors. Respectful treatment of the customers could contribute to possible growth as well.

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  17. Anonymous08:47

    Bring back Belgrade Billund :)

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  18. Anonymous15:41

    The president (the second-in-command after the CEO) was just fired with immediate effect and last week we learnt about the closure of Debrecen base (their absolute home turf with zero competition). They are in big trouble. PR announcements about the rosy future won't change it.

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  19. Anonymous16:27

    We need Basel-Pristina and Basel-Ohrid back

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  20. Anonymous19:08

    Some more links to Liverpool please

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  21. Anonymous21:09

    Wizzair need to return flights to Ohrid (OHD):
    Malmo
    Friedrichshafen
    London
    Basel
    Milano

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  22. Anonymous01:14

    Will they enter Saudi market?

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